Portugália is now just a regional flights operator on behalf of TAP Portugal, but it was some years ago an important name in the European regional airlines scene. Spain was also one of their markets. Besides the flights between the two countries, it also flew Spanish domestic flights.

Lanica was the state owned airline from Nicaragua, until it was grounded in 1979 after the Sandinista revolution. A new airline, Aeronica, started some time later, and even later Nica (which is now part of the grupo Taca) was the Nicaraguan carrier. Lanica flew with 727 to Miami and the neighbouring cities of Panama, Guatemala, San Salvador and Mexico City.

Danair was a domestic Dane airline, which also flew to the Faroe Islands. It was actually a virtual airline that never owned a single plane; Danair was the result of an alliance between three airlines that operated domestic flight within the country: SAS, Maersk and Cimber Air. Danair ceased to exist as such in 1995, and from that year on the three airlines operated on their own.

Page showing the fare chart; it would be interesting to compare the former fares with the current ones. There was also a standby fare for those under 26 or over 60.

El esquema de rutas es bastante parecido al que tiene actualmente Cimber Air (que por entonces era una empresa muchísimo más pequeña)The route network is quite similar to the current Cimber Air one (which at the time was a very small airline)

Transavia was a Dutch charter airline that benefited in 1986 from the first Open Skies agreement between the UK and the Netherlands; It started its first scheduled route between Amsterdam and Gatwick, a route also served at the time by KLM and British Caledonian (these other flights are also listed on the card). Later, Transavia increased its scheduled network and it became part of the KLM group. It is nowadays known as the low cost branch of Air France-KLM, transavia.com

At the sime time, in 1998 the US Airways Metrojet subsidiary was created. This was a low frills airline within an airline that flew some of its older 737-200. There were other similar attempts to fight low cost airlines, such as United Ted or Delta Express and Song by Delta. None of them, however, succeed. After US Airways merged with America West, it is considered a low cost airline as well, even if it is more of a mixed model airline, like many others.

Two timetable cards issued by the airport itself. In 1995, the low cost airlines were still almost unknown to the great travelling public. There were fewer flights and also a much smaller choice of destinations flown by this kind of airlines...

This is essentially the good old Lufthansa "yellow book" timetable that I am pretty sure all of you know and love. This "Europa" edition comes in a handy pocket size and as the name suggests, it only shows European flights. Also, some pages with colour pictures are included.

Un año después del mundial de fútbol en Alemania, y todavía aparece un avión con la librea especial con un balón en el morro. This was one year after the football world cup held in Germany, and a plane in the special livery (with a soccer ball in its nose) is shown.

Star Alliance was already 10 years old at the time. As you know, the alliances between airlines are continously changing and evolving. Some of the airlines in the picture above are already gone, who ever knows what the airline scene will be in just a few years' time ...